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English Language Arts
- Standard Area - CC.1.3: Reading Literature: Students read and respond to works of literature - with emphasis on comprehension, making connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.
- Grade Level - CC.1.3.7: GRADE 7
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
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Anchor Descriptor - E07.A-K.1.1 Demonstrate understanding of key ideas and details in literature.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.1 Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences, conclusions, and/or generalizations drawn from the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.1a Answer a literal question about a text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.1b Answer an inferential question about a text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.1c Cite details and evidence from the text to answer literal and inferential questions.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.2a Identify the theme/central message of a story, drama, or poem using key details/evidence from the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.2b Summarize the text.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.3 Analyze how particular elements of a story, drama, or poem interact (e.g., how the setting shapes the characters or plot).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.3a Identify how two elements of a story, drama, or poem interact.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences, conclusions, and/or generalizations drawn from the text.
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Anchor Descriptor - E07.A-K.1.1 Demonstrate understanding of key ideas and details in literature.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.1 Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences, conclusions, and/or generalizations drawn from the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.1a Answer a literal question about a text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.1b Answer an inferential question about a text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.1c Cite details and evidence from the text to answer literal and inferential questions.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.2a Identify the theme/central message of a story, drama, or poem using key details/evidence from the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.2b Summarize the text.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.3 Analyze how particular elements of a story, drama, or poem interact (e.g., how the setting shapes the characters or plot).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.3a Identify how two elements of a story, drama, or poem interact.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact and how setting shapes the characters or plot.
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Anchor Descriptor - E07.A-K.1.1 Demonstrate understanding of key ideas and details in literature.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.1 Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences, conclusions, and/or generalizations drawn from the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.1a Answer a literal question about a text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.1b Answer an inferential question about a text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.1c Cite details and evidence from the text to answer literal and inferential questions.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.2a Identify the theme/central message of a story, drama, or poem using key details/evidence from the text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.2b Summarize the text.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.3 Analyze how particular elements of a story, drama, or poem interact (e.g., how the setting shapes the characters or plot).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-K.1.1.3a Identify how two elements of a story, drama, or poem interact.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
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Anchor Descriptor - E07.A-C.2.1 Demonstrate understanding of craft and structure in literature.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-C.2.1.1 Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-C.2.1.1a Determine the points-of-view of two or more characters in a text.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-C.2.1.2 Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning.Eligible Content - E07.A-C.2.1.3 Determine how the author uses the meaning of words or phrases, including figurative and connotative meanings, in a text; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-C.2.1.3a Determine how word choice changes the meaning of a text.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
Standard - CC.1.3.7.EAnalyze how the structure or form of a text contributes to its meaning.
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Anchor Descriptor - E07.A-C.2.1 Demonstrate understanding of craft and structure in literature.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-C.2.1.1 Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-C.2.1.1a Determine the points-of-view of two or more characters in a text.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-C.2.1.2 Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning.Eligible Content - E07.A-C.2.1.3 Determine how the author uses the meaning of words or phrases, including figurative and connotative meanings, in a text; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-C.2.1.3a Determine how word choice changes the meaning of a text.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
Standard - CC.1.3.7.FDetermine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in grade-level reading and content, including interpretation of figurative, connotative meanings.
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Anchor Descriptor - E07.A-C.2.1 Demonstrate understanding of craft and structure in literature.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-C.2.1.1 Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-C.2.1.1a Determine the points-of-view of two or more characters in a text.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-C.2.1.2 Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning.Eligible Content - E07.A-C.2.1.3 Determine how the author uses the meaning of words or phrases, including figurative and connotative meanings, in a text; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-C.2.1.3a Determine how word choice changes the meaning of a text.
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Anchor Descriptor - E07.A-V.4.1 Demonstrate understanding of vocabulary and figurative language in literature.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-V.4.1.1 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. a. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. b. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., belligerent, bellicose, rebel).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-V.4.1.1a Use context to determine the meaning of an unknown or multiple meaning word.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-V.4.1.1b Use a root word or affix to determine the meaning of a word.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-V.4.1.2 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. a. Interpret figures of speech (e.g., literary and mythological allusions) in context. b. Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonym/antonym, analogy) to better understand each of the words. c. Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., refined, respectful, polite, diplomatic, condescending).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-V.4.1.2a Identify the meaning of figurative language in context.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-V.4.1.2b Use relationships between words to aid comprehension.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Standard - CC.1.3.7.GCompare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g. lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film).
Standard - CC.1.3.7.HCompare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.
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Anchor Descriptor - E07.A-C.3.1 Demonstrate understanding of connections within, between, and/or among texts.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-C.3.1.1 Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-C.3.1.1a Identify similarities or differences in a fictional portrayal and a historical account of the same period.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Standard - CC.1.3.7.IDetermine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade-level reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies and tools.
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Anchor Descriptor - E07.A-V.4.1 Demonstrate understanding of vocabulary and figurative language in literature.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-V.4.1.1 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. a. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. b. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., belligerent, bellicose, rebel).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-V.4.1.1a Use context to determine the meaning of an unknown or multiple meaning word.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-V.4.1.1b Use a root word or affix to determine the meaning of a word.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-V.4.1.2 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. a. Interpret figures of speech (e.g., literary and mythological allusions) in context. b. Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonym/antonym, analogy) to better understand each of the words. c. Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., refined, respectful, polite, diplomatic, condescending).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-V.4.1.2a Identify the meaning of figurative language in context.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-V.4.1.2b Use relationships between words to aid comprehension.
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Standard - CC.1.3.7.JAcquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
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Anchor Descriptor - E07.A-V.4.1 Demonstrate understanding of vocabulary and figurative language in literature.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-V.4.1.1 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. a. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. b. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., belligerent, bellicose, rebel).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-V.4.1.1a Use context to determine the meaning of an unknown or multiple meaning word.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-V.4.1.1b Use a root word or affix to determine the meaning of a word.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Eligible Content - E07.A-V.4.1.2 Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. a. Interpret figures of speech (e.g., literary and mythological allusions) in context. b. Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., synonym/antonym, analogy) to better understand each of the words. c. Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., refined, respectful, polite, diplomatic, condescending).
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-V.4.1.2a Identify the meaning of figurative language in context.
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Alternate Eligible Content - E07.A-V.4.1.2b Use relationships between words to aid comprehension.
Alternate Eligible Content is designed for students assessed using the PA Alternate System of Assessment (PASA). Essentialized Example resources assist teachers in designing instruction that reduces content complexity while maintaining alignment to academic standards.
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Standard - CC.1.3.7.KRead and comprehend literary fiction on grade level, reading independently and proficiently.
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